Society President
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Mr Cliff Fudge BSc CEng FIStructE AMICE FIMS was re-elected President of the British Masonry Society for 2007/8 at the Annual General Meeting in June 2007. He will serve in that capacity for another year.
The new President has been working in the masonry industry for some 25 years, virtually all of his working life since graduating from City University London with a degree in Civil Engineering.
His career started as a sandwich course student with the then consulting engineers Freeman, Fox & Partners working for short periods on site including the M4 and M5 motorways and the cable spinning operation of Humber Bridge. After graduation, he joined a London local authority for 2 years, but then sought a more commercial position in a progressive company. In 1982 he joined H+H Celcon Limited in the role as a technical advisor and through a number of promotions became a Director of the company in 1993. His service with the Company has resulted in a wide- ranging experience with masonry and precast concrete products, both in their design and their applications. As the holding company, H+H International A/S changed direction in the 90’s, so the range of products manufactured varied from the core material of aircrete to calcium silicate and precast concrete flooring units. He has held Directorships with Earthspan plc and Kingsway Technology Limited, the latter company being exclusively geared towards R&D and innovation. Other previous roles within the Company have included both Safety Director and Marketing Director, but more recently he has Board responsibility for the Integrated Management Systems, covering aspects of quality, environment and safety. For the Aircrete Products Association, he has been the secretary of their Technical Committee for some 15 years.
Cliff has always had an interest in innovation and R&D and as a result he now oversees and co-ordinates this area of the Group’s operations across Scandinavia, Germany and more latterly Poland. Working with various research departments of Universities such as Kingston in London and Tampere in Finland, he is part of the Celcon team introducing new forms of modern methods for masonry, as well as new reinforced aircrete products, adapted for UK use.
He holds a number of seats on all the BSI masonry and aircrete related committees, including the chairmanship of B/523 Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete Products. Within CEN, Cliff can still recall attending the first meeting held of the TC250/SC6 on Eurocode 6 and latterly became involved with the group dealing with Part 3 of EC6. In CEN TC125, masonry products, he chairs the task group looking at attestation of conformity for CE marking for the European masonry sector. He also plays an active role in TC177, which deals with reinforced concrete products of aircrete and no-fines concrete.
He has been directly involved with the amendments to the energy conservation parts of the Building Regulations for England and Wales and took a major role in the Industry Advisory Groups for Part L, as Chairman of the Masonry sub-group producing ‘Robust Construction Details’. More recently he chaired the masonry group for the 2006 changes to Part L and is an active member of one of the Expert Panels. In 2005, he was elected to the Board of Robust Details Limited, dealing with acoustics for the housing building industry, as a non-Executive Director.
Other positions in the industry include Chairmanship of the Construction Products Association’s Technical Committee and he is also a member of the NHBC Council, sitting on their Standards Committee on behalf of the Construction Products Association.
He is currently the Vice President of the EAACA, the European aircrete Association, having chaired various of its working groups, and remains the chair of their Strategy Committee as well as a member of their Executive Committee.
He has written some 20 papers on issues dealing with aac and masonry.
Married, with a 21-year old son and a dog, leaves little time for hobbies, but he does enjoy walking, jogging, his annual ski trip, the occasional guitar playing and the odd DIY job.
Cliff would like to pass on his thanks for the good work that his predecessor, Professor Geoff Edgell, has done and to the sterling efforts of the officials of the Society.
CAF
5th July 2006
Updated January 2008
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